The Psychology of Counterfactual Thinking (International Series in Social Psychology)

✍ Scribed by David R. Mandel, Denis J. Hilton, Patrizia Catellani

Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Leaves: 265
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a critical overview of significant developments in research and theory on counterfactual thinking that have emerged in recent years and spotlights exciting new directions for future research in this area. Key issues considered include the relations between counterfactual and casual reasoning, the functional bases of counterfactual thinking, the role of counterfactual thinking in the experience of emotion and the importance of counterfactual thinking in the context of crime and justice.

✦ Table of Contents

Half Title: The Psychology of Counterfactual Thinking......Page 2
Title Page......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Figures......Page 10
Tables......Page 11
Contributors......Page 12
Introduction......Page 14
Part I: Counterfactuals, causality, and mental representation......Page 22
1 Counterfactual and causal explanation......Page 24
2 The relation between counterfactual and causal reasoning......Page 41
3 The course of events......Page 57
4 The mental representation of what might have been......Page 74
Part II: Functional bases of counterfactual thinking......Page 88
5 Reflective and evaluative modes of mental simulation......Page 90
6 Scenario simulations in learning......Page 107
7 Finding meaning from mutability......Page 123
Part III: Counterfactual thinking and emotion......Page 140
8 When a small difference makes a big difference......Page 142
9 On the comparative nature of regret......Page 160
Part IV: Counterfactual thinking in the context of crime, justice, and political history......Page 176
10 Escape from reality......Page 178
11 When the social context frames the case......Page 196
12 Theory- versus imagination driven counterfactuals......Page 212
References......Page 230
Author index......Page 258
Subject index......Page 260

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